[Geysers] Geyserite at Smithsonian

[MA Bellingham]

>From my research I never felt it was from Vixen, but up Geyser Creek  "to
the foot of the bluffs beyond the Paint-Pots".  

 

Here's what I have in my notes that "could" be it.. 

 

>From PW Norris' "Calumet of the Coteau"  (1883) (p 250)  "From this place we
ran a wagon as far as possible with animals, then with men, towards the
famous Geyser cone, now in the National Museum in Washington, which was
nearly two miles, by a circuitous route, to the foot of the bluffs beyond
the Paint-Pots.  There it required a blacksmith frequently sharpening tools,
a man to assist in drilling and chiselling, and another to carry and throw
cold water upon them to prevent parboiling in the hot steam and jets from
its seventeen fine pulsating cones or orifices for nearly a week, and then
twenty men to carry it amid the bottomless boiling chaldrons to the wagon,
and thence it was conveyed safely to Washington, although weighing nearly
half a ton."

 

I just found out tonight I have a commitment in Cody on April 24.  Oh, if
the East Entrance road would be open on opening weekend..

 

MA 

 

M.A. Bellingham

 

 

 

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Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 8:07 AM
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Subject: Re: [Geysers] Geyserite at Smithsonian

 

In a message dated 1/23/2005 22:30:06 PM Pacific Standard Time,
meechg at erols.com writes:

I would be interested in going to find out more as I live just outside DC.
If anyone has prior experience getting access to Smithsonian storage items
that might help me make progress

 

To Graham and any others--

 

I am pretty sure this was mentioned/suggested before, but... What is the
possibility of obtaining a chemical analysis of the sinter from these (both)
cones? Any more, a really teensy piect would be sufficient, and then with
luck it could be matched to modern Yellowstone.

 

I will say this-- when I first saw the photo of the display cone and heard
the number of vents, I immediately thought of Avalanche. Now Graham say the
Smithsonian says Gibbon Geyser Basin. So....

 

Scott Bryan

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